Barrington girls finish third at track states

Boys team ties for 11th place; hurdler celebrates state championship

Posted 2/19/19

The Barrington High Schools girls and boys indoor track teams made their bids for a state championship on Saturday, Feb. 16. The girls team came close, grabbing third place overall, while the boys …

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Barrington girls finish third at track states

Boys team ties for 11th place; hurdler celebrates state championship

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The Barrington High Schools girls and boys indoor track teams made their bids for a state championship on Saturday, Feb. 16. The girls team came close, grabbing third place overall, while the boys team finished tied for 11th.

The boys team did, however, celebrate an individual state champion. Walter Joachim-Delpoio, a junior at Barrington High School, won the 55-meter hurdles, clipping a Hendricken runner by one-one hundredth of a second. Joachim-Delpoio clocked a time of 7.79 seconds while Duwuan Edwards of Hendricken finished in 7.80 seconds.

Joachim-Delpoio set a new Barrington High School record in the event, breaking the mark set in 2009 by Mike Braz of 7.91.

The Barrington High School girls team was led by junior Caroline Livingston, who finished second in the 1,500-meter race and third in the 1,000-meter race. Livingston clocked a 4:45.72, just a second back from the winner, Portsmouth's Elizabeth Sullivan. Livingston finished less than a second behind Sullivan in the 1,000, and just three tenths of a second behind Portsmouth's Olive Allen in the 1,000. 

Annika Kelly, a senior at Barrington, finished second in the weight throw, while her classmate Sydney Polando finished third in the same event. 

The Eagles' girls' 4x400-meter relay team finished second overall. The team includes Julia Howarth, Sarah Hennessey, Tess Gagliano and Jordynn Palethorpe.

Elizabeth Grover, Howarth, Gagliano and Palethorpe combined to finish sixth in the 4x200-meter race. 

The Barrington boys' 4x800-meter relay team of Calvin Hennessey, Jamie Gunness, Holden Vaughan and Brendan Fay finished third with a time of 8:21.95. That mark was a season's best for the Barrington relay team. Also, Vaughan was the only freshman boy who earned All-State honors.

Barrington finishers

Boys

1,000: 9. Brendan Fay

1,500: 7. Fay

55 hurdles: 1. Walter Joachim-DelPoio

4x200: 7. Barrington (Ben Geoghegan, Aaron Brady, Andrew Blazewicz, Walter Joachim-Delpoio)

4x400: 8. Barrington (Jay Scheiffelin, Calvin Hennessey, Jamie Gunness, Joachim-Delpoio)

4x800: 3. Barrington (Calvin Hennessey, Jamie Gunness, Holden Vaughan, Brendan Fay)

Weight throw: 7. William Cauley

Girls

600: 4. Julia Howarth; 5. Tess Gagliano

1,000: 3. Caroline Livingston; 11. Meg Zitzmann; 15. Stephanie Chun

1,500: 2. Livingson; 8. Chun; 10. Margaret Nozaki

3,000: 11. Fiona Ainsworth

55 hurdles: 6. Claire Grover

4x200: 6. Barrington (Elizabeth Grover, Julia Howarth, Tess Gagliano, Jordynne Palethorpe)

4x400: 2. Barrington (Howarth, Gagliano, Sarah Hennessey, Palethorpe)

4x800: 4. Barrington (Hennessey, Zitzmann, Palethorpe, Chun)

High jump: 4. Claire Grover; 15. Ashleigh Wallen

Weight throw: 2. Annika Kelly; 3. Sydney Polando

Shot put: 9. Kelly

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